Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 12:17 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > On closer inspection, I found that my panacea.dat inside > ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/randomnumber.default is corrupted. Is there any way > to reconstruct this file based on the emails that I have? My emails seem to > be intact though. I haven't followed the whole thread, so forgive me if my assumptions are wrong, but can't you simply create a new profile and import your old mails? They should be in mbox format. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> It sounds to me like something modified your prefs.js file. That is the >> file that controls which mail folders and accounts are available. >> According to the official documentation, you're not supposed to directly >> edit that file, but I know it is possible. BUT you cannot let IceDove >> create a profile. >> > > On closer inspection, I found that my panacea.dat inside > ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/randomnumber.default is corrupted. Is there any way > to reconstruct this file based on the emails that I have? My emails seem to > be intact though. > > hth > raju > Well, good news that email is intact. As for reconstructing the .dat file, I have no idea. Perhaps someone else can step in here, or you can try going upstream (meaning the mozilla thunderbird developers). Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGEqoDiXBCVWpc5J4RAvWKAJ96FJiTwpyfLzfjdA95pFvHmmP9RACcDNIE PdTphG82iF/jqLuJrhVV3w8= =RXvw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Joe Hart wrote: > It sounds to me like something modified your prefs.js file. That is the > file that controls which mail folders and accounts are available. > According to the official documentation, you're not supposed to directly > edit that file, but I know it is possible. BUT you cannot let IceDove > create a profile. > On closer inspection, I found that my panacea.dat inside ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/randomnumber.default is corrupted. Is there any way to reconstruct this file based on the emails that I have? My emails seem to be intact though. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> I know why. The default mail directory and your mail directory are not >> the same. The easy fix is to put your mail somewhere else (like >> /home/raju/mail then adjust the profile.ini file to not use a relative >> path and to use specifically that directory. >> > > This is not the problem. For example, if I create a new account it is stored > in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/bafaowsk.default/Mail/Local Folders-1 . So it is > able to recognize that I am using .mozilla-thunderbird. However it is not > recognizing my other folders. > > For example, I currently have > > $ls -al ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/bafaowsk.default/Mail/ > total 28 > drwxr-xr-x 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:06 ./ > drwx-- 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:05 ../ > drwxr-xr-x 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:04 > kusumanchi.mae.cornell.edu/ > drwxr-xr-x 45 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 Local Folders/ > drwxr-xr-x 4 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2005-06-08 16:28 News & Blogs/ > drwxr-xr-x 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 News & Blogs-1/ > drwxr-xr-x 8 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 pop.gmail.com/ > > all these are different different accounts. However, None of these showing > up. It sounds to me like something modified your prefs.js file. That is the file that controls which mail folders and accounts are available. According to the official documentation, you're not supposed to directly edit that file, but I know it is possible. BUT you cannot let IceDove create a profile. So, the best thing I would think would be to purge icedove and then install in again, run it once, and cancel the wizard, then exit the program and move your mail (including all of the files listed above) to the directory it created. Once copying is done, start IceDove again and your mail should be there. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGEe/yiXBCVWpc5J4RAiVGAKDNZXJw1rjhMkdOdIWnlPj1zsdgHgCfdBKE mq6D0BW2Mu1tWTfCiRlmWeE= =KNuP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Joe Hart wrote: > I know why. The default mail directory and your mail directory are not > the same. The easy fix is to put your mail somewhere else (like > /home/raju/mail then adjust the profile.ini file to not use a relative > path and to use specifically that directory. > This is not the problem. For example, if I create a new account it is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/bafaowsk.default/Mail/Local Folders-1 . So it is able to recognize that I am using .mozilla-thunderbird. However it is not recognizing my other folders. For example, I currently have $ls -al ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/bafaowsk.default/Mail/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:06 ./ drwx-- 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:05 ../ drwxr-xr-x 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:04 kusumanchi.mae.cornell.edu/ drwxr-xr-x 45 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 Local Folders/ drwxr-xr-x 4 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2005-06-08 16:28 News & Blogs/ drwxr-xr-x 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 News & Blogs-1/ drwxr-xr-x 8 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 pop.gmail.com/ all these are different different accounts. However, None of these showing up. > The problem comes because thunderbird generates a random name for the > directory where the mail sits. The directory structure should look > something like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/share/Mail$ ls -p > abook.mab install.log prefs.js > cert8.db key3.db reminderfox/ > compatibility.ini Local Folders/ secmod.db > compreg.datlocalstore.rdf signature.txt > cookies.txtMail/ signature.txt~ > downloads.rdf mailViews.dat signons.txt > extensions/mimeTypes.rdf training.dat > extensions.cache News/ virtualFolders.dat > extensions.ini panacea.dat xpti.dat > extensions.rdf persdict.datXUL.mfasl > history.mabpgprules.xmlxul.mfl > I have similar structure. $ls -p .mozilla-thunderbird/bafaowsk.default/ 95817772.s defaults.ini install.log persdict.dat abook.mab downloads.rdf key3.db prefs.js cert8.db extensions/ localstore.rdf secmod.db chrome/extensions.cache Mail/ training.dat compatibility.ini extensions.inimailViews.dat user.js components.ini extensions.rdfmimeTypes.rdf virtualFolders.dat compreg.dathistory.mab News/ xpti.dat cookies.txtImapMail/ panacea.dat XUL.mfasl raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> After this long and irrelevant story, do you have your mail back or do >> we need to troubleshoot it further? >> >> Joe >> > > Interesting experience. Thanks for sharing it. > > However, I still have the same problem : When I start icedove, it brings up > the "account wizard" instead of seeing the already existing accounts. > > raju > I know why. The default mail directory and your mail directory are not the same. The easy fix is to put your mail somewhere else (like /home/raju/mail then adjust the profile.ini file to not use a relative path and to use specifically that directory. The problem comes because thunderbird generates a random name for the directory where the mail sits. The directory structure should look something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/share/Mail$ ls -p abook.mab install.log prefs.js cert8.db key3.db reminderfox/ compatibility.ini Local Folders/ secmod.db compreg.datlocalstore.rdf signature.txt cookies.txtMail/ signature.txt~ downloads.rdf mailViews.dat signons.txt extensions/mimeTypes.rdf training.dat extensions.cache News/ virtualFolders.dat extensions.ini panacea.dat xpti.dat extensions.rdf persdict.datXUL.mfasl history.mabpgprules.xmlxul.mfl Not all of the files are needed, but most of them are. Of course reminderfox/ is an extension that I use, so wouldn't likely be there for you. Notice there is a Mail folder inside the Mail directory. This is where the messages are really stored. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGEWEXiXBCVWpc5J4RAvaYAJwMthIoVFKXDSpfDYHBb9brGf3ZgwCfXDT1 jSJ+cKqQ6mjkYzYp0fXHG8g= =Pds3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
KS wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> >>> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. >>> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing >>> up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might >>> help. >> >> The page says that, In Linux the path is ~/.thunderbird. However my files >> are located in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird and not ~/.thunderbird. Except for >> this difference, everything is as the page suggests. >> > > The reason for that one difference is that your profile location wasn't > changed when thunderbird's settings changed from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird > to ~/.thunderbird as the default location. Debian maintainers might have > decided let the user use the old location than force them to change to > the new one or create new accounts. > > /KS If I want to follow the current thunderbird style, Is it as simple as moving ~/.mozilla-thunderbird to ~/.thunderbird? Or do we need to do anything more? raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Joe Hart wrote: > > After this long and irrelevant story, do you have your mail back or do > we need to troubleshoot it further? > > Joe > Interesting experience. Thanks for sharing it. However, I still have the same problem : When I start icedove, it brings up the "account wizard" instead of seeing the already existing accounts. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 2) Is there any way to tell icedove to migrate all the old emails to its newer (if any) default location? I've just migrated from Sarge/Thunderbird to Etch/Icedove. Before I started Icedove for the first time I simply copied the ./mozilla-thunderbird folder from "Sarge home" to "Etch home", started Icedove and there they were all mails, everything worked/works without problems. regards, Mitja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Joe Hart wrote: > KS wrote: >> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >>> Kushal Kumaran wrote: >>> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might help. >>> The page says that, In Linux the path is ~/.thunderbird. However my files >>> are located in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird and not ~/.thunderbird. Except for >>> this difference, everything is as the page suggests. >>> >> The reason for that one difference is that your profile location wasn't >> changed when thunderbird's settings changed from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird >> to ~/.thunderbird as the default location. Debian maintainers might have >> decided let the user use the old location than force them to change to >> the new one or create new accounts. > >> /KS > > > Why would they do that in the first place. If they (the maintainers) > were going to change it, wouldn't it make more sense to call it > .icedove? That happened with IceWeasel. > > Joe > The change from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird to ~/.thunderbird happened much before Debian got Icedove. It was an upstream change. /KS PS: replied to Joe directly by mistake. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: [snip] >> $cat .mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini >> [General] >> StartWithLastProfile=1 > >> [Profile0] >> Name=default >> IsRelative=1 >> Path=bafaowsk.default >> Default=1 > > >> Looks correct to me except the "Default=1" line. What does it do? > >> raju > > > I may be wrong but wouldn't that just be boolean? > > i.e. "Default=True" I am sure the IsRelative is boolean, but I have never seen it as "true" or "false", it is always 1 or 0. As for the default, no because one can have several mail folders. - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGETjCiXBCVWpc5J4RAjvGAJ9UQDtbGZ0B1PcVo4KYlEsUK5mrGgCgksPc +S2IPXXy987db26+2APby24= =5dX5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> >>> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. >>> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing >>> up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might >>> help. >> The page says that, In Linux the path is ~/.thunderbird. However my files >> are located in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird and not ~/.thunderbird. Except for >> this difference, everything is as the page suggests. >> > > The reason for that one difference is that your profile location wasn't > changed when thunderbird's settings changed from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird > to ~/.thunderbird as the default location. Debian maintainers might have > decided let the user use the old location than force them to change to > the new one or create new accounts. > > /KS > > Why would they do that in the first place. If they (the maintainers) were going to change it, wouldn't it make more sense to call it .icedove? That happened with IceWeasel. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGETgliXBCVWpc5J4RAuCDAKDOOiAqMWRLFRViuSg9oMw6I3WRSQCgguHL BPHKJ7V+aSqFI1doZ9K7Bqk= =YzuJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's >> mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on >> yours. > > On my system also, all the email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 93 4972 12:06 PM > $ls -al .mozilla-thunderbird/ > total 36 > drwxr-xr-x 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 12:06 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 183 rajulocal rajulocal 20480 2007-04-02 12:06 ../ > -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 1046 2004-10-06 17:51 appreg > drwx-- 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 11:08 bafaowsk.default/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 104 2006-03-15 13:08 profiles.ini > > >> When you find the right directory, you'll see that there's a file inside >> called profiles.ini You can edit that file and point Icedove to use any >> directory. Take a look at my profiles.ini for an example. >> >> #Begin file >> [General] >> StartWithLastProfile=1 >> >> [Profile0] >> Name=default >> IsRelative=0 >> Path=/media/share/Mail >> #end file >> >> See that my mail is stored in /media/share/Mail. Change that to >> wherever you have the Mail folder and Icedove should see it. >> > > My profiles.ini file is > > $cat .mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini > [General] > StartWithLastProfile=1 > > [Profile0] > Name=default > IsRelative=1 > Path=bafaowsk.default > Default=1 > > > Looks correct to me except the "Default=1" line. What does it do? > > raju > So you found it. Good. Now notice that the IsRelative on your system is 1 and on mine is 0. That is because I specifically give it a directory to use rather than use the one inside the folder that the profiles.ini is stored. That way, 1) it's not in a hidden directory and 2) allows other users to get to the mail (since I share that directory). The reason I set it up this way is becuase when I first started using GNU/Linux, I still used Windows, and it was a pain having two separate email folders. If I checked my mail with Windows, I couldn't see it in Linux and vice versa (mainly the latter). I set up Thunderbird on the windows side to use that folder and I told Thunderbird on the Linux side to use the same folder. Works fine. It took me a while to figure out how to do all that because I was so new to Linux at the time, and there are some confusing web pages that tell one to modify the prefs.js file, which is totally unnecessary. Now I don't use Windows anymore, but never bothered to change my mail around. After this long and irrelevant story, do you have your mail back or do we need to troubleshoot it further? Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGETbriXBCVWpc5J4RAmgyAJ4pKOlogOTPvYEoS7rVAILtpzxCDACcDfRT iY+3oZj6Isi5BJnVHZMwKPg= =zUnm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. >> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing >> up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might >> help. > > The page says that, In Linux the path is ~/.thunderbird. However my files > are located in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird and not ~/.thunderbird. Except for > this difference, everything is as the page suggests. > The reason for that one difference is that your profile location wasn't changed when thunderbird's settings changed from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird to ~/.thunderbird as the default location. Debian maintainers might have decided let the user use the old location than force them to change to the new one or create new accounts. /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Kushal Kumaran wrote: > You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. > http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing > up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might > help. The page says that, In Linux the path is ~/.thunderbird. However my files are located in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird and not ~/.thunderbird. Except for this difference, everything is as the page suggests. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Kushal Kumaran wrote: > You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. I was not receiving any error messages. Previously when I start thunderbird, it directly goes to my accounts page and displays all the folders, news groups etc., Now, when I run icedove, it is starting the "account wizard" and asking me to set up a new account. I do not want to set up any new accounts as I already have old accounts set up. When I start icedove with -ProfileManager option, it shows that I have a profile named "default". However, if I select that and choose "Start Icedove", it brings up the "account wizard" again and asks me to set up a new account. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:10:10PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > > > > This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's > > mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on > > yours. > > On my system also, all the email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 93 4972 12:06 PM > $ls -al .mozilla-thunderbird/ > total 36 > drwxr-xr-x 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 12:06 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 183 rajulocal rajulocal 20480 2007-04-02 12:06 ../ > -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 1046 2004-10-06 17:51 appreg > drwx-- 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 11:08 bafaowsk.default/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 104 2006-03-15 13:08 profiles.ini > > > > > > When you find the right directory, you'll see that there's a file inside > > called profiles.ini You can edit that file and point Icedove to use any > > directory. Take a look at my profiles.ini for an example. > > > > #Begin file > > [General] > > StartWithLastProfile=1 > > > > [Profile0] > > Name=default > > IsRelative=0 > > Path=/media/share/Mail > > #end file > > > > See that my mail is stored in /media/share/Mail. Change that to > > wherever you have the Mail folder and Icedove should see it. > > > > My profiles.ini file is > > $cat .mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini > [General] > StartWithLastProfile=1 > > [Profile0] > Name=default > IsRelative=1 > Path=bafaowsk.default > Default=1 > > > Looks correct to me except the "Default=1" line. What does it do? > > raju > I may be wrong but wouldn't that just be boolean? i.e. "Default=True" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGES7K/o7Q/FCvPe0RAnQyAJ9BfzRyRaHDDQPWFs+DS5Z+P2qoVwCbB/GK Z233EzW3eRYOD4hIJOn+rK8= =oMGA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
On 4/2/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joe Hart wrote: > > This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's > mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on > yours. On my system also, all the email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 93 4972 12:06 PM $ls -al .mozilla-thunderbird/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 12:06 ./ drwxr-xr-x 183 rajulocal rajulocal 20480 2007-04-02 12:06 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 1046 2004-10-06 17:51 appreg drwx-- 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 11:08 bafaowsk.default/ -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 104 2006-03-15 13:08 profiles.ini > > When you find the right directory, you'll see that there's a file inside > called profiles.ini You can edit that file and point Icedove to use any > directory. Take a look at my profiles.ini for an example. > > #Begin file > [General] > StartWithLastProfile=1 > > [Profile0] > Name=default > IsRelative=0 > Path=/media/share/Mail > #end file > > See that my mail is stored in /media/share/Mail. Change that to > wherever you have the Mail folder and Icedove should see it. > My profiles.ini file is $cat .mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=bafaowsk.default Default=1 Looks correct to me except the "Default=1" line. What does it do? If you have multiple profiles, the Default=1 is the one that is used if you don't specify otherwise. To do that, set StartWithLastProfile to 0 and it will ask you the profile to use when starting. You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might help. -- Kushal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Joe Hart wrote: > > This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's > mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on > yours. On my system also, all the email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 93 4972 12:06 PM $ls -al .mozilla-thunderbird/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 12:06 ./ drwxr-xr-x 183 rajulocal rajulocal 20480 2007-04-02 12:06 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 1046 2004-10-06 17:51 appreg drwx-- 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 11:08 bafaowsk.default/ -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 104 2006-03-15 13:08 profiles.ini > > When you find the right directory, you'll see that there's a file inside > called profiles.ini You can edit that file and point Icedove to use any > directory. Take a look at my profiles.ini for an example. > > #Begin file > [General] > StartWithLastProfile=1 > > [Profile0] > Name=default > IsRelative=0 > Path=/media/share/Mail > #end file > > See that my mail is stored in /media/share/Mail. Change that to > wherever you have the Mail folder and Icedove should see it. > My profiles.ini file is $cat .mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=bafaowsk.default Default=1 Looks correct to me except the "Default=1" line. What does it do? raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Couple of months back, the hard drive on one of my machines has gone bad. > That machine used to run thunderbird (dont remember which version) and all > my email was stored in /home/username/.mozilla-thunderbird . I copied the > old /home partition (from backups) onto a new machine's /home/username. > However when I run icedove now, it is not recognizing the fact that my > email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird. > > The ~/.thunderbird directory is empty. The new machine runs Debian Etch > (testing), icedove 1.5.0.10. I cannot recall the old machine's thunderbird > version, but it was also running Etch. > > 1) What is the default location where icedove stores all its files? I looked > at the man page of icedove, README.Debian.gz but none of them mention this. > > 2) Is there any way to tell icedove to migrate all the old emails to its > newer (if any) default location? > > Any other suggestions/ideas on this issue are also welcome. > > thanks > raju > This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on yours. When you find the right directory, you'll see that there's a file inside called profiles.ini You can edit that file and point Icedove to use any directory. Take a look at my profiles.ini for an example. #Begin file [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=0 Path=/media/share/Mail #end file See that my mail is stored in /media/share/Mail. Change that to wherever you have the Mail folder and Icedove should see it. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGESgCiXBCVWpc5J4RAtl4AKCQ/b7Qh3dO+bk8J8m7id9+oHtB7wCglxXU 8ilJ6g5KgycyiqESk/Mx9bE= =akUY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Couple of months back, the hard drive on one of my machines has gone bad. That machine used to run thunderbird (dont remember which version) and all my email was stored in /home/username/.mozilla-thunderbird . I copied the old /home partition (from backups) onto a new machine's /home/username. However when I run icedove now, it is not recognizing the fact that my email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird. The ~/.thunderbird directory is empty. The new machine runs Debian Etch (testing), icedove 1.5.0.10. I cannot recall the old machine's thunderbird version, but it was also running Etch. 1) What is the default location where icedove stores all its files? I looked at the man page of icedove, README.Debian.gz but none of them mention this. 2) Is there any way to tell icedove to migrate all the old emails to its newer (if any) default location? Any other suggestions/ideas on this issue are also welcome. thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
